Three-eyed evil king of the pirate king

In fact, if you think about it carefully, you will find that Crocodile is actually the only natural devil fruit ability user in the Shichibukai!Among the other Shichibukai, whether it is Boya Hancock, Moonlight Moriah, or Doflamingo and Bartholomew Bear, these four fruit-powered users are all superhuman. The rest Hawkeye Mihawk and Kaisha Jinbe are not even espers.

Natural Devil Fruit, in the eyes of most people, is recognized as the strongest among the three Devil Fruits, but in fact this is not absolute. At least in the middle and late stages of practicing Haki, the number of strong people is still based on the superhuman fruit ability. Most of them.

The Shichibukai represent the top combat power among pirates. It can be said that there are almost no beings in the Shichibukai who can't use Haki. Generally, users with natural fruit abilities may not be able to compete for the position of the Shichibukai. Kroc Dahl may not have the power of Geki Haki, but this cannot be said to be weak. Being ranked among the Shichibukai is the greatest recognition of his strength.

When he thought of this, Karl somewhat restrained his playful thoughts.

"It seems you understand it too!" Crocodile picked up his cigar again and grinned: "It does not mean that knowing the power of domineering will definitely defeat the devil fruit ability users, not to mention that in this desert country, But it’s my home court!”

After saying that, Crocodile's power expanded again. His ability to erode reincarnation began to cause the street ground to dry up and crack on a large scale. When this drying power reached its extreme, the surrounding objects also turned into sand. the process of.

One, two, with the tavern as the center, and the nearby houses began to collapse one after another. From solid buildings, they instantly collapsed into countless pieces of sand.If the people nearby had not felt bad about the appearance of Karl and the others and had already fled, many people would have died at the hands of Crocodile just in the process of desertification.

Karl knew that the reason why people with natural fruit abilities are so powerful is that after these people eat the natural fruit, they have the ability of the fruit to be semi-awakened, just like the awakened superhuman fruit, which can assimilate the surrounding buildings. Those with natural fruit abilities can easily do it with just a little development.

In addition to the buildings, some of the only plants on the streets were also withered and weathered. Ever since Crocodile activated his Devil Fruit ability, not a single blade of grass grew within a hundred meters!From this point of view, Crocodile's Shasha Fruit is also a very dangerous power.

After a large number of buildings turned into sand, the sand could be controlled by Crocodile. Under his control, the sand began to slowly rotate with the wind, getting faster and faster. Before long, a A huge sandstorm quickly formed with the two of them as the center. Although the scale of this sandstorm was not large, it enveloped Karl and Crocodile.The sky was full of wind and sand, which made Karl feel as if the sky was getting dark.

But at this moment, Karl couldn't care less about the sandstorm, because he found that his shoes also showed signs of withering and desertification.

Although what Carl is wearing is not straw sandals like Luffy, but fine leather boots, which are not easily destroyed by sand, but the problem is that any object has a certain amount of moisture, and Crocodile's erosion cycle starts from the ground. It affected the surrounding areas, and naturally Karl's leather boots that were in contact with the ground were also affected.

Karl didn't have to doubt that once his boots were dried up and weathered, when his feet came into contact with the sand, the moisture in his body would also be sucked away by Crocodile.

Thinking of this, Karl directly covered his leather boots with armed domineering energy. When he felt that the leather boots stopped turning into sand, Karl also breathed a sigh of relief.

"So what if you master domineering? At least in this desert, I am invincible!" Crocodile smiled wantonly, and used the fruit's ability to affect the sandstorms. Crocodile can become elemental to ignore these sandstorms, and even control them. But not Carl.Then the sand seemed to turn into the sharpest knife tip, hitting Karl's skin, making a sound of gold and iron.

Karl's skin was undoubtedly very hard. Even so, without the armor-colored domineering covering, Karl still felt severe pain and even some minor wounds.

"We can't let his Devil Fruit power run rampant any longer."

Thinking of this, Karl began to recall the technique of showing off his domineering aura. He held the handle of the knife with his right hand, lowered his body slightly, and made a gesture of drawing the knife to strike.

An astonishing momentum centered on Karl and swept around. Even the elemental Crocodile in the sandstorm was affected to some extent. When he saw Karl's movements, Crocodile also guessed what Karl was planning to do. He couldn't help but freeze his eyes, raised his hand directly, and took the lead in activating his sandstorm.

The wind and sand flying around immediately began to rotate at high speed and began to shrink.

The lower part of the sandstorm is connected to the ground, while the upper part has reached directly over Alabasta. People living in desert countries are the most aware of the dangers of sandstorms.

Some people may say, aren’t sandstorms just tornadoes mixed with sand?There is no lethality!

In fact, it is wrong to think so. Although sandstorms have no direct attack power, people cannot breathe normally in a strongly swirling sandstorm. Even if they can avoid being blown away by strong winds, once they breathe, they will be filled with sand. This sand can block people's respiratory tracts and cause them to suffocate to death.

What's more, the sandstorms in Crocodile are quite lethal. Ordinary people caught in them would probably be killed by a thousand cuts.

"Jiyi Feiqie!"

When Crocodile used Sandstorm, Karl also slowly read out his moves. Originally, Karl wanted to try to use the external armed color Haki to attack, but just after quietly trying it, Karl found that he still couldn't seem to do it. At that point, he quickly changed to a move that only required the armed domineering energy to wrap around the blade, otherwise Karl might be the one to strike first.

Karl's blade seemed to transform into countless knife shadows. This was when Karl turned on the overload mode and used the "shaving" effect. Crocodile couldn't even capture Karl's figure.

In just the blink of an eye, and as if a long time had passed, Karl appeared behind the sandstorm. He paused for a moment, a trace of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, and the skin on his abdomen was rotten. This was caused by Kroc. The part attacked by Dalkin Hook.

Crocodile can turn himself into sand, which is the so-called elementalization, so that he can be perfectly hidden in the sand and kill people invisible. This is why Crocodile said that he is undefeated here.

Karl wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and slowly sheathed the black cutter. Then, a figure also fell out of the sandstorm, it was Crocodile.

Crocodile was cut with a deep wound from his chest to his abdomen. It could even be said that if Karl's knife had moved forward further, Crocodile might have died on the spot.

But Crocodile was obviously still conscious at this time, but unfortunately his sandstorm had been broken by Karl, and he didn't have much mobility.

Just as Karl was about to approach Crocodile, Karl suddenly discovered that the ground he was on suddenly sunk.

"Desert Sunflower!"

A huge circular pit suddenly appeared at Karl's feet. This area of ​​the ground had long been deserted due to Crocodile's erosion. At this time, under Crocodile's control, it directly turned into quicksand, constantly pushing Karl into the ground. Devour.

Karl subconsciously stepped out like a moon step, but the sand under his feet seemed to be conscious. While tightly restraining Karl's legs, it also kept dragging Karl into the sand.

Crocodile turned into sand again and hid in the sand. Not long after, Karl felt that the restraint on his legs had disappeared, and he used the moon step to step out of the quicksand.

"Did Crocodile...escape?" Karl sensed it, but did not find Crocodile's aura.